Audio: 1974

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This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! Mono 7" Singles & EPs (up to 1976) are now here, and Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here. For details of all 1973-74 single releases of A Fool Such As I, now see here.

If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to existing entries, please let me know! Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities - see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the dealers on my Trading page for assistance!

Revised: 01 January, 2012


Titles in red are not available on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com )

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"Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid Original Soundtrack" - stereo vinyl LP, CBS/Sony SOPM 70 (Japan), 1974; CBS/Sony 25AP 284 (Japan), 1976, re-released 1977:

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CBS/Sony SOPM 70 (Japan) - front of obi, scan by Hans Seegers

R-0234 Reversed stereo on all tracks (not listed separately)

The 1973 Japanese packaging was unusual in that the obi took the form of a LP-sized card slip case (illustrated with stills from the film) rather than the usual side strip. The album also had a black and white insert. This release is extremely collectable because of this special packaging alone.

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CBS/Sony SOPM 70 (Japan) - rear of obi, scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony SOPM 70 (Japan) - insert scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony SOPM 70 (Japan) - reverse of insert, scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony 25AP 284 (Japan) - late 1977 release with side obi, scan by Hans Seegers


The album was reissued in 1976 as CBS/Sony 25AP 284 with a white/red/black "regular" obi.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. Thanks to Lars M. Banke and Keith Venturoni for the information that the Canadian release of this LP (Columbia KC 32460) has the order of Billy 4 and Billy 7 reversed on the record itself but not on the sleeve or the label. However, the Canadian release does not have reverse stereo as previously reported, so it's not a rarity.


Barry Goldberg - "Barry Goldberg" - stereo vinyl LP, Atco SD 7040 (USA/UK), 1974; CD release: Micro Werks MW 032/OPCD-8390 (USA), 7 Jul 2009:
Atco was a subsidiary "specialty" label of Atlantic Records. Bob, who co-produced the album with Jerry Wexler,  contributes back-up vocals on five tracks and plays percussion on "It's Not The Spotlight" - this album was not reissued on CD until 2009. The 2009 release has an orange sticker with white text citing Bob as producer.

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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - front scan by Kenneth Robson
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - rear scan by Kenneth Robson
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - original Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers (with R-0106 - R-0109)

Atco SD 7040 (USA) - detail of original Side 1, scan by Hans Seegers
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - original Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers (with R-0110)
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - inner sleeve front, scan by Kenneth Robson


Atco SD 7040 (UK) - scan by Wim van der Mark

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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - inner sleeve rear, scan by Kenneth Robson
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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - later Side 1 scan by Kenneth Robson (with R-0106 - R-0109)


Atco SD 7040 (USA) - detail of later Side 1, scan by Kenneth Robson

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Atco SD 7040 (USA) - later Side 2 scan by Kenneth Robson (with R-0110)

Atco SD 7040 (USA) - detail of front, scan by Stuart Moore (with ABC HO promo stamp and nick)

Micro Werks MW 032/OPCD-8390 (USA) - picture from Tim Dunn

Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - front scan by Hans Seegers


Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - rear scan by Hans Seegers


Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers


Atlantic ATL 10398 (West Germany) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers


Atco SD 7040 (USA) - later Side 1 scan by Stuart Moore (with ABC HO promo stamp)

R-0106 Stormy Weather Cowboy (Barry Goldberg)

R-0107 It's Not The Spotlight (Gerry Goffin/Barry Goldberg)

R-0108 Silver Moon (Barry Goldberg

R-0109 Minstrel Show (Barry Goldberg)

R-0110 Big City Woman (Barry Goldberg)

The copy of SD 7040 owned by Hans Seegers is the original pressing and has Atlantic Records' address as "1841 Broadway, New York, NY". Kenneth Robson's copy is the second pressing with their later address of "75 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY". Hans has information that the Broadway address was used until late 1973, but as this label is dated 1974 the move must have been later.

Thanks to Stuart Moore for scans of a copy of the second US release of SD 7040 which has a radio station promo stamp of "ABC HO" (Australian Broadcasting Corporation Hobart) on the front of the sleeve and on Side 1. The sleeve also has a nick at top right showing it's not for resale. Also illustrated here is Atlantic ATL 10398, a very rare 7" promo single from this album released in West Germany in 1973 before the album was released in 1974. The two tracks of the single, (I've Got To Use My) Imagination and Dusty Country (both from Side 2 of the album), do not have Bob performing, but the label lists Bob as co-producer. This single is unique in that it was the only worldwide Atlantic promo release to have its own picture sleeve, all other promo releases used generic sleeves.

Thanks to Wim van der Mark, Kenneth Robson, Hans Seegers and Tim Dunn for information and scans.


"A Fool Such As I"/"Lily Of The West" - international promo and commercial stereo 7" singles, Columbia/CBS, Jan 1974 onwards:

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CBS Serie Gemini CBS 2006 (France) - front (my copy)
For details of all single and EP releases of A Fool Such As I, now see here.

For the now out-of-print Columbia Dylan album from which these tracks were taken, see 1973.

See here for a note about writer credits for the A-side, often wrongly credited by Columbia to Buford Abner, but actually written by Bill Trader.


Bob Dylan/The Band - "On A Night Like This" - mono/stereo 7" promo single, Asylum AS 11033 (USA), 7 Mar 1974:

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Asylum AS 11033 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant)
R-0454 On A Night Like This - mono version on B-side of Asylum radio station promo 7" single
This is a reduction to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released.

This promo single with two label variations had the regular stereo album version on the other side. For the stereo side of this single, see US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1974.

With the first variant (left), the placing of "MONO" as the last line on the right implies it was pressed at Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA. With the second variant (right), the placing of "MONO" as the top line implies it was pressed at Santa Maria, CA. For details of Asylum pressing plants in the USA, see below.

For details of other Asylum/Island 7" single releases with On A Night Like This in stereo, see US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1974.

For the generic 1974 US Asylum sleeves used to house these singles, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

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Asylum AS 11033 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Bob Dylan/The Band - "Something There Is About You" - mono/stereo 7" promo singles, Asylum AS 11035 (USA), 10 May 1974:


Asylum AS 11035 7" promo single (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant with date stamp)

R-0684 Something There Is About You - radio edit (3:05) of track from Planet Waves on A-side of promo single (the album version is 4:46).


Asylum AS 11035 7" promo single (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant without date stamp)

Asylum AS 11035 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant)

Asylum AS 11035 7" promo single (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Asylum AS 11035 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

R-0684M Something There Is About You - mono version of radio edit (3:05) on B-side of promo single
This is a reduction to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released.

With the first variant (left), the placing of "STEREO" or "MONO" as the last line on the right implies it was pressed at Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA. With the second variant (right), the placing of "STEREO" or "MONO" as the top line implies it was pressed at Santa Maria, CA. For details of Asylum pressing plants in the USA, see below.

For details of other Asylum/Island 7" single releases with the full 4:46 album version of Something There Is About You on the A-side and Tough Mama on the B-side, see International 7" Singles & EPs 1974.

For the generic 1974 US Asylum sleeves used to house these singles, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.


Bob Dylan/The Band - "Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine" - mono/stereo 7" promo single, Asylum AS 11043 (USA), 1974:
These Asylum singles were made at three different pressing plants in the USA, each is identified by a code on the single label: "CSM" - Santa Maria, CA; "CTH" - Terre Haute, IN; "SP" - Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA. Labels from only two plants are shown. Some Asylum albums have code "CP" which means the Columbia pressing plant at Pitman, NJ.

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Asylum AS 11043 7" promo single (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (mono - "SP"=Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA)
R-0543 Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine - mono version of Before The Flood album track live with The Band on B-side of Asylum radio station promo 7" single
This is a reduction to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released.

For the stereo side of this single, see International 7" Singles & EPs 1974.

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Asylum AS 11043 7" promo single (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (stereo - "SP"=Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA)
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Asylum AS 11043 7" promo single (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (stereo - "CSM"=Santa Maria, CA)

For the regular US and internationally released stereo singles, see International 7" Singles & EPs 1974.

For the generic 1974 US Asylum sleeves used to house these singles, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.


Bob Dylan/The Band - "It Ain't Me, Babe"/"All Along The Watchtower" - 7" mono/stereo promo and commercial singles, Asylum E-45212 (USA/Canada), Summer 1974:
The US Asylum singles were made at three different pressing plants in the USA, each is identified by a code on the single label: "CSM" - Santa Maria, CA; "CTH" - Terre Haute, IN; "SP" - Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA. Labels from only two plants are shown. Some Asylum albums have code "CP" which means the Columbia pressing plant at Pitman, NJ. The tracks are live with The Band from Before The Flood. The A-side is a reduction to mono from stereo, as no mono version of this album was released.

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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo A-side (mono edit, 3:15) - scan by Hans Seegers ("CSM"=Santa Maria, CA)
US promo single A-sides (left):

R-0113 It Ain't Me, Babe (3:15) - mono edit of Before The Flood version (3:19), recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show/afternoon show, 14 Feb 1974

I previously reported this as a different performance from that on Before The Flood, but the story is more complicated! Les Kokay reports in "Isis" issue 102 that, while the performances are essentially the same, there is a noticeable difference on the last line of the third verse: on the album track and the regular singles (USA, Canada, West Germany, Spain) Bob sings "It still ain't me, babe"; here he sings just the expected "It ain't me, babe." Les' theory is that on this promo version the last three lines of the third verse are spliced in from the afternoon performance of the same date.

US promo single B-sides (right):

R-0112 All Along The Watchtower (2:58) - stereo edit of Before The Flood version (3:19), also recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show, 14 Feb 1974

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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo B-side (edit 2:58) - scan by Hans Seegers ("CSM"=Santa Maria, CA)
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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo A-side (mono edit, 3:15) - variant scan by Hans Seegers ("SP"=Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA)
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Asylum E-45212 (USA) promo B-side (edit 2:58) - variant scan by Hans Seegers ("SP"=Specialty Record Corp, Olyphant, PA)
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Asylum E-45212 (USA) regular single A-side (mono edit, 3:15) - scan by Hans Seegers ("CSM"=Santa Maria, CA)
US commercial single:

R-0113 It Ain't Me, Babe (3:15) - mono edit of Before The Flood version (3:19), recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show/afternoon show, 14 Feb 1974
This is the same as the US promo singles.

Canadian commercial single:

R-0555 It Ain't Me, Babe (3:40) - Before The Flood version with The Band, recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show, , 14 Feb 1974, in false mono
This would appear just to be the "mono" version of the album track, which is indeed 3:40.

Both commercial singles:

R-0112-2 All Along The Watchtower (2:58) - stereo edit of Before The Flood version (3:19), also recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, evening show, 14 Feb 1974

No versions of this single come with a picture sleeve. For the generic US Asylum sleeves used in 1974, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers and Les Kokay for information and to Hans Seegers and Dag Braathen for scans.

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Asylum E-45212 (USA) regular single B-side (edit 2:58) - scan by Hans Seegers ("CSM"=Santa Maria, CA)

Asylum E-45212 (Canada) regular single A-side (mono 3:40!) - scan by Dag Braathen

Asylum E-45212 (Canada) regular single B-side (edit 2:58) - scan by Dag Braathen

"Mr. D's Collection # 1" - promo LP, CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan), mid 1974:
This is the album that first collected Bob Dylan rarities together, and it was only been released in Japan on vinyl as a strictly limited edition. This album was released three years before the extracted EP, Mr. D's Collection #2, which definitely dates from 1977. Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen have now confirmed the above date for this. I have no information about this release having an obi.

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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - front scan by Lars M. Banke

The Mr. D's Collection records were given away to Japanese fans in exchange for tokens collected from CBS/Sony albums (the obi or part of the obi). See 1976 for the EP Mr. D's Collection #2, and 1993 for the CD Mr. D's Collection # 3, a CD release. All these items were produced in limited quantities only, and are very collectable. The date "1974 12 31" (31 Dec 1974) which appears on the obi and the insert is the closure date for the offer, not the release date as I originally thought. It's time the material on this album and much more was made available on a commercially available Bob Dylan CD worldwide!


CBS/Sony SOPL 220 (Japan) - top obi scan by Wil Gielen (includes voucher, price ¥2,000)

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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - detail of insert showing offer closure date of "1974 12 31", scan by Hans Seegers


CBS/Sony SOPL 220 (Japan) - detail of obi scan by Wil Gielen (voucher with tokens to cut out for Mr. D's Collection #1 or book)

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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers
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CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers

There are two tokens on the voucher - the first ("5:1") is for Mr. D's Collection #1, and means the fan has to send in five tokens from Dylan albums with these obis plus a shipping charge of ¥600 to obtain this album. The second token ("11:1") is for an imported Dylan photo book, although there's no shipping charge required in this case. More information about this photo book required! The qualifying albums with the tokens on their obis are listed below.

Side 1:

R-0095-2 I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn) - with Roger McGuinn, from his 1973 self-titled Columbia album (see 1973)
Bob gets a name check in the lyrics as "Mr. D", which inspired this collection's title!

R-0002-4 I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley) - with Carolyn Hester, from her 1962 self-titled Columbia album, see 1962 (stereo version)
For a complete list of all the compilations this track has appeared on, also see 1962.

R-0145 Mixed Up Confusion - this is not the original US mono single (R-0007, see 1962). This is an alternate take (probably still mono) (2:30) that doesn't have the harmonica solo immediately after Bob's introduction "I've got mixed up confusion, man, it's a-killin' me!".
According to Rob van Estrik this version, which also appears on the 1977 Japanese EP Mr. D's Collection # 2 (see 1977), the 1978 Australian set Masterpieces (see 1978), and in an edited form on the original 1985 issue of Biograph (R-0748, see 1985), runs slightly slow. Steve Espinola adds to this: "The Masterpieces and Biograph alternate take runs about a semitone slower than the single take, making Bob sound overly mature and serious.  If the alternate take is sped up to the pitch of the single, it comes across as much more light-hearted.  It also becomes a song in G, a much more likely correct pitch than F#.". For details of the four released alternate takes of this song, see 1962. Many thanks to Les Kokay for all his information about these alternate takes, and for permission to reproduce his findings and to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for further information.

From a Buick 6 - I was originally informed this was the alternate take with the harmonica intro (R-0046, see 1965), but this track is now revealed to be the regular version from Highway 61 Revisited. As the Japanese 12" vinyl version of the album had the alternate take, this was then the "alternate" version to them! It had previously appeared in Japan only on a 1966 stereo EP - see US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1965-69.

R-0085-2 George Jackson - lyrics on bobdylan.com , acoustic version from 1971 single, see 1971

Side 2:

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
I am now positively informed that the version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? in this set is in mono, and not the stereo version unavailable on commercial CD. The version available as on Masterpieces (1978) and Biograph (1985, remastered CD reissue 1997) and the 2001 Essential Bob Dylan/Ultimate Bob Dylan compilations is also from the original single and still in mono! The version on a CBS Spanish 7" EP and single was in mispressed mono and not in stereo as previously reported, see 1972.

R-0054-4 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - live at Liverpool with The Hawks, May 1966, B-side of mono I Want You singles (see 1966)
This live version, never released on a regular Columbia album, is also on the Japanese promo EP Mr. D's Collection #2 (see 1976), the 1978 Australian set Masterpieces (see 1978), the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3 promo CD (see 1993), and the Capitol/EMI boxed set The Band: A Musical History (see 2005). All versions are as far as I know still in mono as originally recorded. Sadly, it does not appear on the B-side of a withdrawn CBS Spanish EP (see 1972), because the record was mispressed with It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry from Highway 61 Revisited instead!

R-0072-2 Spanish Is The Loving Tongue - lyrics on bobdylan.com ,solo 1971 single B-side version (see 1971), also on Masterpieces, see 1978
This is not the version with band and backing singers from the 1973 Dylan album (R-0096, see 1973).

R-0074-2 Nashville Skyline Rag - version with Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, Dec 1970.
For the original 1971 Columbia release of Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family and Friends, see 1971

R-0084-7 George Jackson - "Big Band" version from 1971 single (see 1971), lyrics on bobdylan.com ,
R-0084 is on the Nov 1972 Japanese compilation Bob Dylan: Gift Pack '73 (see 1972), the 1978 Japanese/Australian compilation Masterpieces (see 1978), on the Japanese limited release items Mr. D's Collection #1 (LP, this release), #2 (EP) and #3 (CD) - see 1976 for #2, and 1993 for #3. It is also on the 2CD Japanese compilation Dylan Ga Rock (1993 release only, not the 2010 release). The version of R-0084 on the CD release of the 1978 Japanese/Australian set Masterpieces (see 1978) is reportedly distorted, so the CD Mr. D's Collection #3 (see 1993) is where they both are to be found in the best quality. The R-0084 "Big Band" version appeared on the Sony Music Bob Dylan Custom Mix CD web-site, Apr 2003, see Online Performances (Other). The web-site misidentified the track as R-0085.

The 12 qualifying Japanese Dylan releases were:

Blonde On Blonde (2LP set) CBS/Sony SOPJ 47-48 ¥3,600

Self Portrait (2LP set) CBS/Sony SOPJ 49-50 ¥3,600

Bob Dylan CBS/Sony SOPL 220 ¥2,000

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan CBS/Sony SOPL 221

The Times They Are A-Changin’ CBS/Sony SOPL 222 ¥2,000

Another Side Of Bob Dylan CBS/Sony SOPL 223 ¥2,000

Bringing It All Back Home CBS/Sony SOPL 224 ¥2,000

Highway 61 Revisited CBS/Sony SOPL 225 ¥2,000

John Wesley Harding CBS/Sony SOPL 226 ¥2,000

Nashville Skyline CBS/Sony SOPL 227 ¥2,000

New Morning CBS/Sony SOPL 228 ¥2,000

Dylan (1973) CBS/Sony SOPL 236 ¥2,200

You had buy 11 of the 12 qualifying albums to get the photo book, so if you wanted both the album and the book you would have to have bought more than one copy of an album! (There was no option on the voucher to send for both items together.) In late 1974 or early 1975 SOPL 220-228 were re-released with new obis omitting the voucher and the single album price raised to ¥2,200. SOPL 236 was only released with price ¥2,200 and SOPJ 47-48 & SOPJ 49-50 were not reissued.

Thanks to Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans.


Various Artists - "Disconnected - The Dial-A-Poem Poets Double" - vinyl 2LP set, Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA), 1974
2LP set in a gatefold sleeve. Bob's contribution was recorded New York, Nov 1971, at the same session that produced September On Jessore Road (see 1972), Going To San Diego, Vomit Express (for both, see 1982) and A Dream (see 1994).


Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - front scan by Kenneth Robson
R-0158 Jimmy Berman Rag (Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - Bob contributes vocals and plays guitar, piano and organ for Allen Ginsberg

This track also appeared on the 1982 album Allen Ginsberg's First Blues, John Hammond Records, see 1982.

Thanks to Kenneth Robson for information and scans.


Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 3 scan by Kenneth Robson (R-0158)

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - rear scan by Kenneth Robson


Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - inside of gatefold sleeve, scan by Kenneth Robson


Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 1 scan by Kenneth Robson (no Dylan)

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 2 scan by Kenneth Robson (no Dylan)

Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 003 (USA) - Side 4 scan by Kenneth Robson (no Dylan)

"Bringing It All Back Home" - 8-track release, Columbia 18 10 0024/Columbia House PCA 24 (USA), 1974?:

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Columbia 18 10 0024 (USA) - front used for both releases, scan by Augie Krater

R-0522 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - shortened by two verses

This 8-track edition was released twice, both times with the same front sleeve in red cartridges. There was also a Columbia House record club edition with different packaging (the example shown is still sealed in a slipcase and has a black cartridge). Note the first variant of 18 10 0024 has three separate glued labels while the second has two - the rear label folds over the end.

Thanks to Thomas Wilmeth for the information and to Hans Seegers and Augie Krater for further information and scans.

For more pictures, see International Albums (Regular).

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Columbia House PCA 24 (USA) - slipcase front scan by Hans Seegers


"Blonde On Blonde" - 8-track release, Columbia 18 20 0012 (USA), 1974?:
For stereo LP and 8-track releases of Blonde On Blonde, see the page for that album in International Album Releases (Regular). Also see 1966 - Blonde On Blonde Rarities.

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Columbia 18 20 0012 (USA) - slipcase front scan by Hans Seegers

R-0523 Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - with shortened instrumental break (missing first eight bars)

This release is in a slipcase with a black cartridge with two labels (the rear label folds over the end as on two of the three Bringing It All Back Home examples above).

Thanks to Thomas Wilmeth for the information and to Hans Seegers for further information and scans.

Note that Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again is on the fourth track with Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowlands, and mistitled "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The" (repeating a mistake from the first US release). For a British release with the error "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With Thee", see The Blonde On Blonde Missing Pictures.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. For more pictures, see International Albums (Regular).


"Nashville Skyline" - Quadraphonic LPs, Columbia CQ 32872 (USA)/CBS Q 63601 (Spain), 1974; Quadraphonic 8-track cartridges: Columbia CAQ 32872 (USA/Canada), 1974.:
Thanks to Dr. Walter Roedl for information there was also a US Quadraphonic 8-track cartridge release, Columbia CAQ 32872. This was also released in Canada.

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Columbia CQ 32872 (USA) - front scan by Olav Langum

R-0114 Country Pie - 16 seconds longer than standard album version and mixed differently

R-0599 Many tracks mixed differently - not separately listed

At the time there were three incompatible audio systems for quadraphonic sound - Columbia releases were for the Sony SQ system.

A specially-licensed Half Speed Master version of Nashville Skyline, prepared by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab was released in the USA in 1981, see the page for Nashville Skyline in  International Album Releases (Regular).

Thanks to Olav Langum, Hans Seegers and Robert Kornovich for information and scans. For more pictures, see International Albums (Regular).


Columbia CAQ 32872 (USA) - front of tape cartridge, scan by Hans Seegers


Columbia CAQ 32872 (Canada) - front of sealed slipcase, scan by Hans Seegers


"Planet Waves" - Quadraphonic LP, Asylum EQ-1003 (USA)/Quadraphonic 8-track tape cartridge, Asylum 8Q-1003 (USA), 1974:
For stereo LP and 8-track releases of Planet Waves, see the page for that album in International Album Releases (Regular). Before The Flood was also released by Asylum as a two 8-track set, but as far as I know in stereo only.


Asylum EQ-1003 (USA)
- front scan by Hans Seegers

R-0115  Forever Young (second version) - this mix has a longer intro (2:52 - regular version is 2:48)

Many other tracks are also mixed differently.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. See International Album Releases (Regular) for more pictures.


Asylum 8Q-1003 (USA) - tape cartridge top scan by Hans Seegers

"Blood On The Tracks" - 12" acetates, Columbia S-19322 (USA), Sep, Oct & Dec 1974:
The famous so-called "New York Sessions" version of the album from A&R Recording Studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York City (the former Columbia Studios used by Bob in the 1960s). Thanks to Jack from Canada for information that Sony may be releasing a 2CD Legacy Edition of  Blood On The Tracks. with CD1 being the album as released in 1975 and CD2 including the complete withdrawn "New York" version of the album with the five replaced tracks listed here. More information will be added when available.


Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 1 scan from Michael Krogsgaard's book "Master of the Tracks" (this version is dated "9/25/74" on the left above the "33 ⅓ RPM" and does not have "S-19322" on the right - it also does not have track timings)
Note the track order is the same as the released album

This test pressing contains five still unreleased tracks:

R-0120 Tangled Up In Blue - unreleased take with different lyrics

R-0117 You're A Big Girl Now - alternate take (a remixed version of this take appears on Biograph)

R-0118 Idiot Wind - unreleased take with different lyrics

R-0119 If You See Her, Say Hello - unreleased take with different lyrics

R-0116 Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts - unreleased take with extra verse

Bob re-recorded these five tracks at the last minute in Minnesota in Dec 1974 with local musicians, some say because he felt there was a little too much "blood on the tracks", others say it was because his brother David Zimmerman convinced him that all the tracks on the album sounded too similar. Ellen Bernstein may also have had a role in convincing Bob to change the album.

The New York Sessions versions of Idiot Wind; If You See Her, Say Hello and Tangled Up In Blue released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 are previously unreleased alternate takes to R-0118, R-0119 and R-0120. None of the five tracks from the test pressing replaced on the released album has yet been released in its original form. This is reportedly because they had already been widely bootlegged, and it was decided to include versions that were new to fans on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3. (An unreleased alternate take of Shelter From The Storm with an extra verse was released in 1996 on the soundtrack of the film Jerry Maguire, see 1996.)

The main tracks for the album were recorded on 16-19 Sep 1974. According to Clinton Heylin's 1996 book "A Life In Stolen Moments - Bob Dylan Day By Day: 1941-1995" there was an overdub session on 23-25 Sep 1974, and Phil Ramone made a test pressing for Bob on 25 Sep. Heylin says this contained an approved sequence for the album that remained unchanged, but the label illustrations for the "9/25/74" test pressing from Michael Krogsgaard's 1991 book "Master of the Tracks" (first and second above) show that tracks 2 and 4 were swapped on Side 2. The song titles also underwent revision from pressing to pressing, as can be seen from the labels.

The first test pressing labels are missing the catalogue number "S-19322", the side number, and also the track timings that appear on the second pressing labels.

Michael Krogsgaard's 1996 article "Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, Part 3" doesn't list any recording sessions for 23-25 Sep 1975 but gives the date of the Griffin overdub session as 8 Oct 1974 (the date of the test pressing label in Heylin's "Day by Day" book). The Heylin labels dated "10/8/74" are third and fourth on the left. These show a different track sequence on Side 1 (which was apparently not retained for the final test pressing). Side 2 now has the final sequence.

In his 1996 book "Dylan: Behind Closed Doors - The Recording Sessions 1960-1994" Clinton Heylin says that a final test pressing was made on either 6 Dec 1974 or 16 Dec 1974 (the date on the label is unclear because of a typo - I assume it's something like "12//6/74"). This had the final track sequence and was the version Bob played to David Zimmerman. I don't have pictures of these labels.

Because Michael Krogsgaard dates the Griffin overdub session as 10 Oct 1974, there has been speculation that the first pressing has a currently uncirculating version of Idiot Wind without the Paul Griffin overdub. However, Tony Brown, the bassist for the Blood On The Tracks sessions, says the organ is indeed present on Idiot Wind on the "9/25/74" acetate. Tony Brown says that he and Paul Griffin played with Bob on all takes of Idiot Wind, and he does not remember Paul Griffin recording overdubs. Tony does, however, remember steel guitarist Buddy Cage recording overdubs - these are noted in the Krogsgaard article. The issue of the 8 Oct 1974 overdub session remains unresolved, but it appears that all the test pressings of Blood On The Tracks, despite different track sequences, have the same musical material.

For the various sleeve designs of the released album, and a Jan 1975 acetate that contains the released album, see the Blood On The Tracks page in International Album Releases (Regular).

Thanks to Jonathan P. Foulkes for the information about the two different circulating versions of this test pressing. Also thanks to Derek Barker, Bob Stacey, Peter Stone Brown for material included in this entry. Thanks to Michael Krogsgaard and Clinton Heylin for their respective books and articles. Thanks to Robin Platts of "Goldmine" magazine for information about the Columbia Reference Recording sold for auction on eBay in early 2008 for $5,000 which has typed labels omitting the album title but with track timings. The track order is the same as the released album, but the timings match the times of the tracks on the replaced version of the album.

The UK "Uncut" magazine's Jan 2005 issue had as its feature article the story of the recording of Blood On The Tracks in Sep and Dec 1974 "One of the most truthful dissections of love gone wrong in rock history.' Exactly 30 years after its release in January 1975, we present the full story of Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks." You can listen to the five replaced tracks from Blood On The Tracks at "Uncut"'s web-site here. Thanks to Fred Muller for spotting this.


Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 2 scan from Michael Krogsgaard's book "Master of the Tracks"
Note the differing track order from the released album

Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 1 scan from Clinton Heylin's book "Bob Dylan Day By Day" (this version is dated "10/8/74" on the left below the "33 ⅓ RPM" and does have "S-19322" on the right plus track timings)
Note the differing track order from the released album

Blood On The Tracks test pressing - Side 2 scan from Clinton Heylin's book "Bob Dylan Day By Day"
Track order this time is now the same as the released album
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Blood On The Tracks Columbia Reference Recording - Side 1 photo from eBay found by Robin Platts
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Blood On The Tracks Columbia Reference Recording - Side 2 photo from eBay found by Robin Platts

Blood On The Tracks Columbia Record Productions vinyl test pressing - Side 1 scan by Arie de Reus

Arie de Reus has a vinyl test pressing of the withdrawn album (the other albums shown here are all acetates). This has blank generic Columbia Record Productions, Santa Maria, labels and matrix numbers: Side 1 - PAL-33235-1A, Side 2 - PBL-33235-1A. Only two copies of this test pressing were known to exist, but Pete Bernard now tells me he obtained a third copy from the Automatt recording studio in San Francisco, CA, formerly the Columbia studio in the city, which is now in the possession of Hans Seegers.

I now have two reports of copies of the first pressing of the commercially released album, Columbia PC 33235,see International Album Releases (Regular), that has the released Side 1 with matrix number PAL-3325-2E on Side 1 but with the test pressing matrix number PBL-33235-1A on Side 2 and the alternate versions of If You See Her, Say Hello (R-0119) and Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts (R-0116). Thanks to Harold Lepidus for the link to "Goldmine" magazine's web-site for an article by Tim Neely dated 28 May 2009 recording the discovery of a third copy with the original Side 2.


Various Artists - "The Bitter End Years" - 3LP set, Roxbury RLX 300 (USA), Oct 1974:


Roxbury RLX 300 (USA) - picture from Wim van der Mark
R-0057-2 Who Do You Love? (Elias McDaniels - "Bo Diddley") - Bob was once thought to be the "Roosevelt Gook" who plays piano for Tom Rush on this track taken from Tom's 1966 Elektra album Take A Little Walk With Me, see 1966.

Thanks to Wim van der Mark for information and picture.

Details of this album are now included in Red Herrings.


"Bob Dylan - New Gift Pack"- deluxe 2LP boxed set, CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan), late 1974:
This set, Vol. 8 in the New Gift Pack series, has a four page lyrics booklet and a second four page information booklet with eight monochrome photographs of Bob.

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - obi scan by Hans Seegers

R-0099-11 A Fool Such As I (Bill Trader)
See here for a note about writer credits for this song from the
1973 Dylan album, often wrongly credited by Columbia to Buford Abner, but actually written by Bill Trader.

Side 1: Like A Rolling Stone; Mr. Tambourine Man; Highway 61 Revisited; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Just Like A Woman; Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

Side 2: Knockin' On Heaven's Door; If Not For You; New Morning; Watching The River Flow; Billy 4; I Shall Be Released

Side 3: Blowin' In The Wind; Song To Woody; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; North Country Blues; My Back Pages; The Times They Are A-Changin'

Side 4: Lay, Lady, Lay; I'll be Your Baby Tonight; John Wesley Harding; I Threw It All Away; The Boxer; A Fool Such As I

As well as A Fool Such As I, this set contains other rarely-compiled tracks such as North Country Blues, John Wesley Harding and Billy 4.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.


CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers


CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - detail of booklet with Dylan discography, scan by Wil Gielen

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - front of booklet scan by Hans Seegers


CBS/Sony SOPZ 53 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 1)


CBS/Sony SOPZ 53 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 2)


CBS/Sony SOPZ 54 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 2 Side 1)


CBS/Sony SOPZ 54 (Japan) - Side 1 with R-0099, scan by Wil Gielen (Record 2 Side 1)

Shawn Chambers says: "This is Vol. 8 in the New Gift Pack Series issued Nov 1974. It is a limited edition 2-record box set issued with a lyric insert." Shawn's Nov 1974 date may be wrong, since the "SOPZ" catalogue number implies it was released after SOPW 57/58 above. It is certainly no later than 1975, because in 1976 CBS/Sony changed over to using the "xx AP xxx" numbering system as with Grand Prix 20 (29 AP 35) below. Wil Gielen points out that the Dylan discography on one page of the Japanese booklet above ends with Dylan (CBS/Sony SOPL-236), a late 1974 release in Japan, so this may support the late 1974 date.


Mono Singles & EPs for 1974

These are now here: Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1970-76. There were no mono Dylan LPs released in 1974.


Promotional/Regular Items for 1974


Living In Another Country: International Stereo Releases

Stereo promo items for 1974 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now included with promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases. Planet Waves 1974
Planet Waves
(1974)
Before The Flood 1974
Before The Flood
(1974)

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